You have to know someone who will guide you to the address -- off a busy street in Cameroon's capital, down a dingy alley to a door with the unwelcoming message in chalk: "No entry. Inside is a rectangular room, dark and humid. The flickering light of a video screen illuminates faces of young men sitting on benches -- members of a video club catering exclusively for gay men, a haven in a society where it is perilous to be same-sex attracted. Maxime, 30, and his companion come several times a week. When his family rejected him, Maxime found refuge at Jean-Pierre's club.
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Secret video club gives respite to gay men in Cameroon
LAGOS, Nigeria Reuters - The 57 men stumbled out of the back of a dark police truck into the glare of a sunny courtyard and a phalanx of cameras. They lined up on wooden benches in the dirt, almost all of them trying to hide their faces, and not succeeding. That law, which drew international condemnation when it came into force in , targets not only same-sex unions but homosexual relations in general with prison terms of up to 14 years. The cameras panned over the faces of the men, capturing expressions of shame, fear and anger.
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